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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






2. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






3. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






4. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






5. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






6. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






7. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






8. The dictionary meaning of a word.






9. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






10. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






11. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






12. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






13. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






14. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






15. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






16. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






17. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






18. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






19. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






20. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






21. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






22. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






23. A four line stanza in a poem.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






26. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






27. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






28. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






29. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






30. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






31. A character struggles against some outside force.






32. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






33. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






34. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






35. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






36. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






37. Broken down acts.






38. The person who 'tells' the story.






39. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






40. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






41. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






42. A short saying with a moral.






43. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






44. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






45. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






46. The selection of words in a literary work.






47. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






48. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






49. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






50. The series of events that make up a story or drama.







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